[WS105] Embodied cognition and experiential approaches to communication, written and spoken discourse analysis. From hypothesis and empirical data to theoretical issues
Authors : Antoine Auchlin, Nathalie Ilić and Tea Pršir
Title : Embodied cognition and experiential approaches to communication, written and spoken discourse analysis. From hypothesis and empirical data to theoretical issues
This workshop aims at offering an extended dialogue between researchers in embodied cognitive studies and experiential approaches to discourse and dialogue analysis. Quoting Geeraerts & Cuyckens Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (2007), “In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics”.
Observation and theoretical work in cognitive semantics and pragmatics grown up, from Lakoff & Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory, Fauconnier & Turner’s mental spaces and conceptual integration theories, to embodied cognitive sciences and their actual large audience and widespread acknowledgment. This is the case in linguistics (Lakoff; Langacker, i.a.), discourse and interaction analysis (Oakley & Hougaard), semiotics (Brandt; Violi, i.a.), cognitive (neuro)science (Thompson; Rohrer; Núñez), psychology (Gibbs; Turner) – among other scientific disciplines.
In this active and multifaceted domain, there is a need to synthesize observations and facts around a set of common hypotheses and principles. Moreover, it is important to assess how general hypotheses, such as the Embodiment Premise (Gibbs 2005), at varying levels of commitment (Núñez 2000) and Observational Scales (Rohrer 2007), may give directions for observation, and how observations may lead researchers to refine or reappraise a – however falsifiable – hypothesis. Another relevant issue is to what extent and in what way the chosen methodology is consistent with embodiment commitment.
The workshop session will address those general issues in connection with specific, spoken or written language data descriptions, either sample analysis or large data mining. Presentations are expected to provide a step-by-step, thoroughly explicit, methodological statement regarding how empirical data can be used in describing and assessing general hypotheses or common interest claims.
We expect as an outcome a general and concise overview of methods, claims and results in empirical language use analysis from a cognitive, embodied and experiential framework.
The workshop consists of three mini-panels:
- Specifying the self (selves) through verbal or semiotic action or activity: general issues
- Embodied cognition in written discourse and communication description
- Embodied cognition in oral discourse and communication description
References
Brandt, Line; Brandt, Per Aage (2005): Making sense of a blend: A cognitive-semiotic approach to metaphor. In Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 3 (1), pp. 216–249.
Christoff, Kalina; Cosmelli, Diego; Legrand, Dorothée; Thompson, Evan (2011): “Specifying the self for cognitive neuroscience”. In Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15 (3), pp. 104–112.
Coulson, Seana; Oakley, Todd (2005): “Blending and coded meaning: Literal and figurative meaning in cognitive semantics”. In Journal of Pragmatics 37 (10), pp. 1510–1536.
Geeraerts, Dirk; Cuyckens, Hubert (eds.) (2007): Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. (2005): Embodiment and Cognitive Science. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Núñez, Rafael (1999): “Could the Future taste purple? Reclaiming Mind, Body and Cognition”. In Rafael Núñez and Walter J. Freeman (eds), Reclaiming Cognition: The primacy of action, intention and emotion. Bowling Green, OH: Imprint Academic.
Oakley, Todd; Hougaard, Anders (eds.) (2008): Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamin.
Rohrer, Tim (2007): “The Body in Space: Embodiment, Experientialism and Linguistic Conceptualization.” In Body, Language and Mind, vol 1. Ziemke, Tom; Zlatev, Jordan; Frank, Roz; Dirven, René (eds). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 339-378.
22.07.2013 10:30-12:30
Title: Intersubjectivity and joint attentionChair: A. Auchlin
10:30 - 11:00 Antoine AUCHLIN
Introduction to the workshop11:00 - 11:30 Todd OAKLEY
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Autism and Intersubjectivity11:30 - 12:00 Mark TURNER
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Embodied Cognition and the Ground of Communication12:00 - 12:30 Antoine AUCHLIN et al.
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Discussion (1)
22.07.2013 14:00-16:00
Title: Embodied cognition from grammar to discourse and dialogueChair: C. Cánovas
14:00 - 14:30 Per Aage BRANDT
Cognition and Dialogue14:30 - 15:00 Nathalie ILIC
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Written discourse in clinical research: Mind the body!15:00 - 15:30 Tim ROHRER et al.
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Persuasive communication, speaker standpoint and embodied cognition15:30 - 16:00 Antoine AUCHLIN et al.
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Discussion (2)
22.07.2013 16:30-18:30
Title: Metaphor and embodimentChair: T. PRŠIR
16:30 - 17:00 Raymond W. GIBBS
Embodiment of Metaphoric Experience17:00 - 17:30 Lilian ACHIENG et al.
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Unveiling the AIDS cognitive model17:30 - 18:00 Maíra Avelar MIRANDA
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Multimodal metaphors in speech and gestures: an analysis of political debates18:00 - 18:30 Antoine AUCHLIN et al.
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Discussion (3)
23.07.2013 14:00-16:00
Title: Schematic integration and a-modal perceptionChair: P.-A. Brandt
14:00 - 14:30 Tea PRŠIR
Amodal perception in experiential blending: case of prosody14:30 - 15:00 Cristóbal Pagán CÁNOVAS
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Schematic integrations: Embodiment from the baby to the poet15:00 - 15:30 Antoine AUCHLIN et al.
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Discussion (4)15:30 - 16:00 Antoine AUCHLIN
temporary conclusion
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